See also: ολίγος

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₃ligos (indigent, small, needy, ill). Compare Old Armenian աղքատ (ałkʻat, poor, indigent), Old Irish líach (wretched), Old Prussian licuts (small). See also λοιγός (loigós, destruction, ruin) and Albanian lig (evil, bad), whose proto-forms are almost if not identical, but which Beekes considers etymologically separate.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ὀλῐ́γος (olígosm (feminine ὀλῐ́γη, neuter ὀλῐ́γον); first/second declension

  1. Of small amount: few, little
  2. Of small size: little, small
  3. Of small degree: slight

Declension

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: oligo-
  • Greek: λίγος (lígos)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀλίγος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1068

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